Indoor Activities in Skipton

Craven Museum and Gallery and Coffee and Clay are both in town and both work regardless of what the hills are doing, one for looking and one for making. Matrix Superbowl covers a group who want to compete instead. Between them they will hold an afternoon, and none of them requires the drive up onto the moor that a clear day would tempt you into.

Skipton Castle is far better preserved than most, which is why it carries an indoor flag alongside an outdoor one, and a good deal of a visit is spent in roofed rooms and stairs rather than open ruins. It is still a medieval building, so expect cold stone and uneven footing. The castle sets out its own visiting arrangements and those are the version to plan around.

Up to a point. Hesketh Farm Park and Thornton Hall Country Park both carry indoor and outdoor flags, which usually means covered barns and play alongside open fields. That makes them a reasonable bet in showers and a harder one in sustained rain. Ring the farm the morning you plan to go, since what is open on a working farm changes with the season and the ground.

Skipton Boat Trips is on this list and is tied to the canal that runs through the middle of the town. A boat is a different sort of shelter to a building, and how much cover you get depends on the vessel and the trip. Ask the operator what you are booking onto and what happens in poor weather rather than assuming.